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Golden Globes' forget-me-nots
Toronto :: Canada | about 13 hours ago
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At Cannes, Todd McCarthy enumerated its strengths: "old-fashioned in good ways that have to do with solid storytelling, craftsmanship and emotional acuity" and singled out star Joaquin Phoenix. McCarthy called it "a brainy, nonviolent 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith,'...
Tags: Todd McCarthy, Canada, Toronto, Duplicity, Dave Eggers, films, MacCarthy, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Buy This Literary Treasure for Charity [Gawker Cares]
New York :: NY :: USA | about 16 hours ago
Credibility At 2009's National Book Awards we honored Sarah Palin 's Going Rogue as 2010's frontrunner for the NBA Fiction Prize by getting it signed by the gathered literary luminaries...And at a ceremony when the books and authors being honored have the sales of...
Tags: nba fiction, Sarah Palin, Columbia MFA, Dave Eggers, national books, James Franco, fourth page, books award, New York, McSweeney's, Gawker Media, Gawker.com, Blogs, United States presidential election, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
Oscilloscope circles DVDs
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Indie distrib Oscilloscope Laboratories is introducing the Circle of Trust, a movies-by-mail club that will send subscribers the next 10 Oscilloscope releases on DVD."About one a month, give or take" will be the laid-back rate of release, according to...
Tags: Oscilloscope Laboratories, Los Angeles, Oscilloscope, McSweeney's, Dave Eggers, The Criterion Collection, Steven Soderbergh, MCA, Netflix, Beastie Boys, Entertainment Culture, Electronic test equipment
Guest Columnist: 'Where the Wild Things Are': A Jewish parent's perspective
Jerusalem :: Israel | 4 days ago
Credibility Whether made from an old blanket draped over chairs or a pile of materials gathered from the backyard, a fort offers a sense of security and intimacy within its confined walls. Inside the fort nothing bad can happen; you can hide from the evils of the...
Tags: wild things, Carol, Israel, Jerusalem, Dave Eggers, Hospitality Recreation, Where the Wild Things Are, films, Spike Jonze
'Let the Great World Spin' rolls to the National Book Award
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility McCann, an Irish immigrant who has lived in New York since 1994, was honored for a novel that the judges called "an ecstatic vision of the human courage required to stay aloft above the ever-yawning abyss." McCann dedicated his award to "one fan," another...
Tags: San Francisco, Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar, William F. Buckley Jr., Entertainment Culture, Social Issues, Frank McCourt, Flannery O'Connor, Yawn, Surnames, Dave Eggers, McCann
Dave Eggers has outgrown his critics
Umm Durmān :: Sudan | 6 days ago
Credibility It may not rouse too much interest on this side of the Atlantic, but tonight Dave Eggers will be presented with the Literarian Award by the National Book Foundation for "outstanding service to the American literary community".
Tags: Dave Eggers, Sudan, Umm Durmān, What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 826 Valencia, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, McSweeney's, Postmodern literature
Interview: Dave Eggers
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility A local rag in brand new drag… at $16 a copy Dave Eggers insists that there's still hope for print journalism A page from the new edition of McSweeney's quarterly. Would you pay $16 for a newspaper? Well, the San Francisco Panorama , out next month,...
Tags: Dave Eggers, McSweeney, United Kingdom, London, Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, McSweeney's Books, McSweeney's, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Entertainment Culture
The United States of McSweeney's, ed Nick Hornby & Eli Horowitz
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility It's a bit surprising to get hold of a McSweeney's anthology and find it in book form. The American literary magazine has long been as well known for the innovative, pleasingly offbeat method of its publication as it has for the actual words, whether...
Tags: McSweeney, Dave Eggers, American, United Kingdom, London, Michael Chabon, Pia Z Ehrhardt, N+1, McSweeney's, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Postmodern literature
Montreal Gazette, Canada: Dave Eggers's novel The Wild Things provides a new perspective on Sendak's Max
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility We all know by now that Maurice Sendak, the 81-year-old author-illustrator of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, gave his approval to Spike Jonze for a feature-film version, and that Jonze wrote the screenplay with Dave Eggers. Less...
Tags: wild things, Maurice Sendak, Dave Eggers
Litquake's Book Ball a party for artists, community
Congratulations! You’ve been invited to a party thrown specifically for creative people who have a tenuous grasp on themselves, who, like Friedrich Nietzsche, know that “when a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and...
Tags: litquake, san francisco, writer, writing, poetry, party, nietzsche, black, white, read, book ball, truman capote, dave eggers, amy tan, ishmael reed, stephen elliott, porchlight, grotto, literary death match, city arts, masks
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